Downloads

Files can be downloaded from the Files
section in the Sourceforge site. That section contains links
to various different versions and releases of Maxima.

The section Recent Releases (on the
right or at the bottom of this page) shows the most recent
releases and clicking on a release number will show the Change
Log for it.

Windows

Get the most recent version from the Maxima-Windows
subsection, which will be a single file with a self-contained
installer program.

Linux RPM

In Linux distributions based on RPM packages, enter the Maxima-Linux
subsection and follow the link to the most recent version. The
page will contain several RPM packages named as:
name-version.i386.rpm, where the first part is the
name of each package and the second part are the numbers that
identify the version. The minimum set of packages that must be
installed are maxima and maxima-exec-clisp.
Since they both depend on each other, they should be installed
with a single rpm command:

rpm -ivh maxima-x.y.z-n.i386.rpm maxima-exec-clisp-x.y.z-n.i386.rpm

Clisp and Gnuplot should be
installed in your system.

You may also want to install maxima-xmaxima, which
provides the Xmaxima graphical interface and a graphics program
needed by some commands such as plotdf and
ploteq.

The maxima-lang packages provide translations of the
manual into various languages.

Macintosh

Get the most recent version from the Maxima-MacOS
subsection, which will be a single package.

Android

Source Code

In systems not included in the previous list or if you want
to build a more recent Maxima version or with a different Lisp
flavor, get the source code from the Maxima-source subsection. Unpack the file and follow the
instructions given in file INSTALL, which can also be
read on-line.

GIT

The most recent development version of the source code can
be downloaded from the GIT repository. That
page shows the git command that should be used to obtain a
complete copy of the repository. After getting the code, follow
the instructions in INSTALL.git.